bitcoiner - Witness Update #8 - 2016-11-11steemCreated with Sketch.

Welcome to my eighth witness update. I do these weekly on Fridays as some other witnesses do, so I may keep my followers and the community up-to-date. Hopefully, this will show that I strive to be an active and reliable witness and that I may hopefully gain your witness approval vote.

I will use @jesta's template for these witness updates as he is awesome. And as always for witness update posts, I will use the Power Up 100% option.

1. Accomplished the week of 2016-11-11

Monitored all my steemd nodes after upgrading to the hardfork 0.15.0 last week. Luckily, there haven't been any problems with this release.

Renewed all my infrastructure for the next month, including my dedicated witness node, public seed/rpc node, and test sandbox. Costly. I'm currently paying everything out-of-pocket as I haven't withdrawn anything from my Steem wallet ever and do not plan to for a while.

Did some more learning on various web technologies and languages like Bootstrap and React. I plan to get up to speed so I can be more effective in contributing to the Steemit.com codebase and other projects.

2. Upcoming projects/goals

Follow up on the "Welcome to Steemit" code submission and make any changes from feedback received from review.

Get ready for the 0.16.0 hardfork.

Continue with @timcliff's wish list and trying to implement some of the items there.

Continue with Steem-related web projects and have announcements and demos.

Continue being active on Steemit, Steemit Chat, and GitHub.

3. Thoughts from this week

We now have profile pictures! This will make for a better social experience. Of course, there are many more UI changes to be desired.

There have been many thought-provoking posts from this week, here's a few:

STEEM is close to pre-rally prices of $0.10 since the rally last week. At least this brought exposure to the crypto community. In addition, SteemFest is happening this weekend!

As for the Steem Economic Changes Update by @dantheman, many witnesses have expressed their views on each change. I am basically in agreement or neutral on every point. The only one I am against is the change to the mining rewards. There are basically two people dominating the miner queue, and under the new changes, will be paid five times more than a top 19 witness.

Finally, thanks to everyone who have voted for me as witness. I am currently at 42! Thanks to all who support me and like what I do. It is all very much appreciated!

Hey @bitcoiner, I like where you are going! I am going to give you my witness vote!
Also, if you have any witness votes remaining, consider picking me for a witness. Thanks @bitcoiner and keep up the good work!

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